{"id":13265,"date":"2016-08-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pharma-mkting.com\/uncategorized\/ghostwrite\/"},"modified":"2019-03-01T12:12:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T12:12:15","slug":"ghostwrite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/surveys\/ghostwrite\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharma-Sponsored Medical Article Ghost Writing Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Pharma-Sponsored Medical Article Ghost Writing Survey      Survey began 21 August 2009<\/p>\n<p>  This survey solicits your opinion on the appropriateness of pharma-sponsored ghost writing practices.<\/p>\n<p>  <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s.aspx?sm=7PkZR8J3F9B_2fq7zE_2fWvA0A_3d_3d\" target=\"_blank\">Take the survey here<\/a><\/b>.         <\/p>\n<p\/>  <a href=\"#Resources\">See Resources &amp; Further Reading below&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>           <b>Background<\/b>           <a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZiPiXEv_Q_g\/So6R9E8GMbI\/AAAAAAAACqY\/Ujn2mYlbCpg\/s1600-h\/SeeGhostWriteres.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 179px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/SeeGhostWriteres.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372391883983434162\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a>The New York Times recently reported: &#8220;A growing body of evidence suggests that doctors at some of the nation&#8217;s top medical schools have been attaching their names and lending their reputations to scientific papers that were drafted by ghostwriters working for drug companies &#8212; articles that were carefully calibrated to help the manufacturers sell more products.           <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Senator Charles E. Grassley, an Iowa Republican who has led a long-running investigation of conflicts of interest in medicine, is starting to put pressure on the National Institutes of Health to crack down on the practice.&#8221;           <\/p>\n<p> Meanwhile, pharma blogger Rich Meyer, doesn&#8217;t see things that way. &#8220;Medical journal articles sponsored by drug companies are part of marketing,&#8221; says Meyer. &#8220;That is a fact of a capitalist business that has to market to medical professionals. &#8216;Ghostwriting&#8217; has been around for over 20 years and is standard industry practice for the drug industries. I personally see nothing wrong with ghostwriting as long as it is made clear at the beginning of the article who wrote it and who endorses the content.&#8221;           <\/p>\n<p> Please respond to the <b>Pharma-Sponsored Medical Article Ghost Writing Survey<\/b> and tell us what YOU think.           <\/p>\n<p> Specifically, the survey asks to what degree you agree or disagree with the following statements:           <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Medical journal articles sponsored and ghostwritten by drug companies are a legitimate part of marketing to physicians.<\/li>\n<li>Drug companies provide ghostwriting services primarily because academic researchers are busy and some may not be skilled writers. I.e., it&#8217;s NOT a marketing tactic.<\/li>\n<li>There is nothing wrong with ghostwriting as long as it is made clear at the beginning of the article who wrote it and who endorses the content.<\/li>\n<li>Medical journal articles sponsored and ghostwritten by drug companies are often biased (eg, emphasize the benefits of a drug and de-emphasize the risks).<\/li>\n<li>Pharma-sponsored ghostwritten medical journal articles are ethically suspect when physicians are paid by the pharma company to add their names as authors even though they have not made a substantive contribution.<\/li>\n<li>Physicians would never sign on as an author of a ghostwritten article that they did not review thoroughly.<\/li>\n<li>Medical schools should prohibit their faculty, trainees and students from being authors or co-authors of articles written by employees of commercial entities if the author&#8217;s name or school title is used without substantive contribution.<\/li>\n<li>The federal government should revise research grant terms to prohibit grantees from being authors or co-authors of articles written by employees of commercial entities if the author&#8217;s name or grant title is used without substantive contribution.<\/li>\n<li>Most physicians do not care that medical journal articles are ghostwritten.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>  <b>Take the Survey<\/b>           Please take 2 minutes to answer this survey relating to pharma-sponsored medical journal article ghostwriting. <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s.aspx?sm=7PkZR8J3F9B_2fq7zE_2fWvA0A_3d_3d\" target=\"_blank\">Take the survey here<\/a><\/b>.           <\/p>\n<p> You will be able to see a summary of up-to-date de-identified results upon completion of the survey.           <\/p>\n<p> Results of this survey may be summarized in an issue of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.pharma-mkting.com\">Pharma Marketing News<\/a><\/i>.           <\/p>\n<p> Your comments are confidential (anonymous) unless you specifically provide your contact information at the end of the survey and allow us to attribute comments to you personally.           <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>          <a name=\"Resources\"><b>Resources &amp; Further Reading:<\/b><\/a>          <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/forums.pharma-mkting.com\/showthread.php?t=19316\">Sen Grassley puts pressure on NIH to crack down on ghostwriters<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveys.pharma-mkting.com\/surveys-hp.htm\">Return to list of surveys&#8230;<\/a><\/i>         <\/p>\n<p\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please take 2 minutes to answer this survey relating to pharma-sponsored medical journal article ghostwriting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1204],"tags":[],"topic":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - 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